In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo returns, as does the GoreFest musical extravaganza, and the PodTales festival premieres; there’s a cemetery mushroom identification walk and much more.

The “Rocky Horror Picture Show” is coming back to Harvard Square – once a weekend cinema staple, it’s now a theater production arriving in time for Halloween, with the benefit of activating one of the square’s long empty and most prominent retail spaces.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are new rounds of the Honk! festival of activist street bands, Lion’s Jaw dance and the Boston Hassle’s Black Market flea, and the “Savage Love” and No Sleep podcasts come for live shows.

A 63-year-old tradition is getting the slightest of shakeups next year, as the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players prepare to step outside the 14-operetta canon of their namesakes to try staging … well, something else.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the return of East Cambridge’s Rib Fest as well as a free “Freak Show” psychedelic rock show, a “Harry Potter and the Sacred Text” podcast show, a slew of writers reading and much more.

We’re so often told – usually by our teachers back in high school – what a great play Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is. With this production, we get to see for ourselves.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are readings from Alice Hoffman and Gabby Rivera – in conversation with the great Roxane Gay – and a “Community Ritual” dance, the “Concerts for One” continue and much, much more.

Bridge Rep leader Olivia D’Ambrosio says her theater company isn’t coming back to Cambridge, the results of a dispute with the Multicultural Arts Center in East Cambridge and her welcoming by a theater company in Worcester.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the 10-day Concert for One event, LadiesCon, SerbFest, the Fluff Festival and Dumpling Festival return, there’s a sexy “slumber party,” plenty of poetry, film, theater and more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Cat Film Festival, the “America Plays” come to Mount Auburn Cemetery (and so do sunsets), there will be Ten Tiny Dances, Salmon Rushdie, Joe Mande, “The Revenger’s Tragedy” and much more.